Olivia Nuzzi's New Book Gets Absolutely Pummeled by The New York Times and Other Critics: Aggressively Awful'

"The reviews are in for Olivia Nuzzi's new memoir, American Canto and they do not scream This is the next Joan Didion. Instead, the book, which was released on Tuesday, is being skewered as a melodramatic and aggressively awful bore, crammed with too many pointless pseudo-literary affectations and not enough dirt on the digital affair she had with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (The big claim: RFK Jr. used ketamine.)"

"NYT's Alexandra Jacobs called it a regrettably self-serious slog that, amid the controversy surrounding Nuzzi, drops with a soft, disappointing thud. American Canto, Jacobs wrote, is wafting and unfocused in a manner that makes you long for the sweet relief of a detailed policy paper. She also said it frustratingly for legal or literary reasons gives coy names to people like the Paparazzo, the Bodyguard, and the Politician, which forces the reader to Google and guess who Nuzzi is writing about."

Olivia Nuzzi released a memoir titled American Canto. Major reviews criticize the book as melodramatic, boring, and overloaded with pseudo-literary affectations. Reviewers say the memoir fails to deliver substantive revelations about Nuzzi's digital affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., including claims that RFK Jr. used ketamine. Media coverage of Nuzzi has been extensive, including a recent New York Times profile and public disclosures by ex‑fiancé Ryan Lizza alleging affairs and salacious details. Critics contrast Lizza's claims and other gossip as more entertaining than the memoir, and one review labeled the book a wafting, unfocused 303‑page bafflement.

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